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Publication details [#34291]

Brown, Cecil H. and Søren Wichmann. 2003. Contact among Some Mayan Languages: Inferences from Loanwords. Anthropological Linguistics 45 (1) : 57–93.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

inference | language contact | loanword

Language as a subject

Chicomuceltec | Ixhil | Q'eqchii'

Place, Publisher

Indiana University

ISBN

0003-5483

Annotation

This paper shows evidence for lexical interference in the three Mayan languages Ixhil, Q'eqchii', and Chicomuceltec, from other Mayan languages and discusses sociolinguistic contexts possibly underlying borrowings/loans.